{"product_id":"wilderness-tips-isbn-9780385491112","title":"Wilderness Tips","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments\u003c\/i\u003e \"uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sadnesses and comforts of love” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn each of these stories Atwood deftly illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe past resurfaces in the present in ways both subtle and dramatic: the body of a lost Arctic explorer emerges from the ice, a 2,000-year-old bog man turns up in an archeological dig, a man with dark secrets marries his lover’s sister, a girl who disappears on a canoe trip haunts her friend many decades later. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe richly layered stories in \u003ci\u003eWilderness Tips \u003c\/i\u003emap interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and lost chances, endowing even the most unassuming of lives with a disquieting intensity.“Each of the stories in \u003ci\u003eWilderness Tips \u003c\/i\u003eis a gem, a glittering piece to which one is drawn again and again. To read them is to enter a startling world: strange and too close for comfort.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] sense of time’s fluidity and motion informs this dazzling collection. . . . [Atwood] uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sadnesses and comforts of love.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Atwood’s voice . . . is sharper than ever, but still funny. . . . It whispers that the wilderness is right here, right now.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret   Atwood \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of more than fifty books of fiction,   poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s   Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The   Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel,   The Testaments, which   was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she   published Dearly, her   first collection of poetry for a decade.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for   Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of   the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton   Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the   Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a   cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in   Toronto, Canada.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305091158245,"sku":"NP9780385491112","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385491112.jpg?v=1767744329","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wilderness-tips-isbn-9780385491112","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}